[proxy_user]

Maybe someone should post the Greek text of this work so that all the Freepers can read it for themselves.

[metmom]

I don’t suppose it ever occurred to anyone that Judas didn’t have enough time to write it between the time he betrayed Jesus and the time he committed suicide.

Parody my foot. I can’t believe what so-called intellectual types fall for. I guess it comes from not knowing Scripture.

[Lancey Howard]

Maybe National Geographic’s translators were inspired to mischief by ‘The Satanic Verses’.

[Tanniker Smith]

Yes, when Jesus was down on his knees and his dead and begged, "Judas, please.", he was begging for his betrayal and not for his life, as that was part of the plan all along, but it was important that Harr---, er, Peter not be told any of this because he had important work to do, which included the three denials before the cock crowed and finding the Invisibility Shroud, the Crown of Thorns and the Staff of Ra...

I may be confusing two different books here . . .

[Enterprise]

"Once I started translating the Gospel of Judas and began to see the types of translation choices that the National Geographic team had made I was startled and concerned," DeConick said. "The text very clearly called Judas a 'demon.'

DeConick contends that the Gospel of Judas is not about a "good" Judas or even a "poor old" Judas. It is a gospel parody about a "demon" Judas written by a particular group of Gnostic Christians who lived in the second century."

[Enchante]

As I understand it the so-called “Gospel of Judas” and ALL of the so-called “Gnostic Gospels” were written more than a century after the crucifixion. While one can debate whether or not the New Testament is absolutely reliable, the idea that extremely obscure texts written more than a century later (by people who had absolutely no first-hand knowledge of any of the events of the life and death of Jesus Christ) should be given any great credibility is just another dogma of politically correct debunkers. There is a great rage for pretending that convenient novelties are important when they serve a particular (liberal-secular) point of view. I would not give “The Gospel of Judas” any more credibility than Dan Brown’s “DaVinci Code” (the latter has been thoroughly discredited).

[exit82]

There is no “Gospel of Judas”.

[Dick Bachert]

This dust-up misses the point:

Jesus CAME HERE TO DIE FOR THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE.

If Judas was His betrayer — i.e., the instrument by which Christ’s critical task was accomplished — except to correct error, what does it matter?

[Don Corleone]

Has anyone noticed how the “Natl. Geo Channel” has been piling on Christianity lately?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“For Jews, he is terrifying, the man whom Christians associated the Jewish people, whose story was used against them for centuries.”

Silly me, I thought Christ died for the sins of all mankind.
The Jews are no more to blame than anyone else.
And Christ; and most early Christians were Jews.

[Quix]

Though I love to learn a lot of geography etc. via their journal

I’ve long felt that the NG was a major tool of the globalist puppet masters . . .

Felt that way at least 3-4 decades or more.

[Nachoman]

Paul was pretty clear about the Gnostics; they were heretics.

[Interesting Times]

ping

[N. Theknow]

Only reason Judas became the 13th disciple was because Ross Perot entered the race.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Dustbunny]

We do not watch any show produced by the MSM about any portion of the Bible of on Christians. We do not trust their interpretations.

[cake_crumb]

"While researching and translating it, she discovered that National Geographic's translators had made some serious errors."

Now THERE'S a big surprise.

Amazing the amount of human misery that results from mistranslations of religious texts. Who knows what new misery will be founded by people who believe Judas was a hero??

[cake_crumb]

"It appears to have something to do with our collective guilt about anti-Semitism..."

Here's a thought: everybody try to STOP BEING ANTI SEMITIC. No rationalization, just QUIT IT.